Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia?
a. It was forced on reluctant White Virginians by profit-minded English merchants and the mercantilist officials of the Crown
b. It was the first case in witch Europeans enslaved Blacks
c. It fulfilled the original plans of the Virginia Company
d. It first occurred after the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which greatly stimulated the demand for low-cost labor
e. It spread rapidly in the late seventeenth century, as Blacks displaced White indentured servants in the tobacco fields
Ans: e. It spread rapidly in the late seventeenth century, as Blacks displaced White indentured servants in the tobacco fields
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